more condemnation of the syrian regime from the west but the bullets regarding rebel targets in damascus from both the nations from the u.n. a journal and somebody new to me in new york. also general songs uses the high profile gathering as a platform to make his case calling on the us to stop his persecution under to using washington of exploiting the arab uprisings pose a political agenda. and places cameos the streets of athens turned

to a battlefield has tens of thousands been that rage over also recently while spain may lose its biggest region cut to libya because of the financial times more. international news life or mosco this is all she with me thanks for joining us it's no surprise to see where has been the most heated they share addressed at the u.n. general assembly meeting in new york and britain was added to the voices that calling for the removal of their regime that's while the recent deadly blasts carried out by the rebels in damascus have remained largely ignored by the international community. has been following the second day of the high profile gathering for us. the prime minister britain addressed the general assembly a centrally reiterating a conversation that began by u.s.

president barack obama and the french president just twenty four hours ago the u.s. and its western allies are very much pushing for or charlotte the president of syria to step down they've all said in different words that his time to go is now and that he and his government do not belong in the international community leader of the representative of qatar just twenty four hours ago say that if the special envoy to syria cannot find a peaceful resolution to the problem then plan b. should be a no fly zone the last time there was a no fly zone approved by the security council that led to military intervention into libya so this is a serious issue and we do know the position of the u.s. of friends of britain that have been pushing for bashar al assad and his government to go have been supporting the syrian opposition russia's foreign minister lavrov said that it's quite concerning that western countries who are supporting the

syrian opposition are increasingly turning the other way when violence and bloodshed is being perpetrated by rebels he said that this is a very dangerous pattern and this little to do with russia's worried that the latest attacks in syria aren't receiving any reaction from the un security council because someone's donations are stepping back in addressing the syrian conflict which me eventually lead to justifying terror school for the world which is a little bit new to so there you have it it was just the most recent conversation taking place in the security council once again on syria crisis that has been developing for more than eighteen months and still a huge division among the international community. the reunion needs osun against them in the true involvement in the syrian conflict to hadron's the world leaders at the general assembly during the. speech itself mahmoud ahmadinejad said the world is in need of a new and fresh thinking criticizing the policies of europe and the us washington

and lead western walkout boycotting his address. from the national iranian american council says iran's opponents can actually benefit from the fiery speech well if you look at what's happening inside of iran really if you are saying that are taking extreme toll on ordinary people there is a sense that there could be imminent strikes whether there are strikes threatened by bibi netanyahu or u.s. strikes that president obama referred to in his address and so i think that if there is a sense of being surrounded inside of iran that it is an accurate reflection of what is happening that being said you know i'm not sure of what the strategic thinking was in delivering this speech normally when he when he comes to the united states these are speeches designed to provoke angsty and to generate media attention on the u.s. on the israeli side i think that there are still statements that it is made that

will you know will be used to create the impression that iran is not a rational actor and that there needs to be a military conflict. it wasn't just the speech or the world leaders causing this among u.n. delegates today in a son to address the assembly cost as he himself remains holed up at the ecuadorian embassy in london they whistle blower and then to that prosecutor against him and all those connected with we kill x. lower smith has more on what i have to say. this is a man who only on wednesday was described by the united states as an enemy of the state just a few hours later he was speaking to the united nations he gave quite an a most of speech saying that he was speaking as a free man soli thanks to the efforts of ecuador which of course has offered him asylum and he's currently staying in this building in the embassy here in london he's says that he's been at six hundred fifty nine days in captivity essentially

but without charge but he says he's free in a sense to speak his mind and he talked extensively about the life of bradley manning who of course is accused of leaking military documents to wiki leaks bradley manning has now been under lock and key for eight hundred fifty six days which is way over what's legal under military law in the united states he also said that we shouldn't underestimate the scale of the investigation into wiki leaks and the bradley manning is not the only one who's been affected by it he was very hard on president obama he said that there had been more offenses against freedom of speech during president obama's administration than any other let's just hear what he had to say about this administration it is time for the u.s. to cease its persecution of with the roots. of persecution over our people and to cease its persecution of sources. it is time for

president obama to do the right thing. for us is of change he talked about the audacity of the united states which he says has taken credit for the events of the arab spring when in fact credit was due to the people themselves now it's just possible that there may be some kind of a breakthrough in the next couple of days in our soldiers' case we know that william hague. the foreign secretary here in the u.k. is due to meet ricardo patino who is his ecuadorian counterpart we understand that what the ecuadorians may do is seek safe passage for us to the ecuadorian embassy in sweden and that he would bear aunts of questions on these sexual allegations that have been made against him but meanwhile he is living here in the ecuadorian embassy just down the corridor from where i'm standing now and he's been here now for more than three months and also yours exclusively broadcasting our sunday's

address live and you can watch him for now web site and also don't forget the whistleblower host of his own interview show on this very channel and you can find all the additions on our r.t. dot com if you've missed any. there hasn't been anything yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. the full source material is what helps keep journalism honest we. we want to present. something real. scenes of violence in golf athens that hundreds of stars he processed has clashed with police then broke out right in front of the greek parliament where tens of thousands gathered for the latest show of discontent of the harsh cops and new

round of measures would mean the flashes to pensions under brazen they were time and attorney and professor of constitutional norm true god always has the story has shown itself to be a path to disaster. their own recipe it's the second of recipe that's will release that sort of disease itself because we see that these two year or so of it but austerity measures that they did has not decreased it's now would actually be good would it do to be despite the show last year do you have a point if you would have understood this engine of the economy so it's a kind of the specific we're going to reduce the debt a state where making a record we've lost in the leisure of people in the recent up we had at the age of mistrust of exclusion central focal it's got implosion of the government itself so what i think that in the months to come we're going to finish the idea of political crisis besides the one. and the same sentiment was also found

among the crowds in madrid but in spain anger over the financial turmoil is taking on more dangerous forms the leader of the country's biggest region catalonia said if he wins early local elections next month he'll be a referee they'll be a referendum on independence even if this punished government doesn't approve it alters jacob greaves has more. the regional elections being held in catalonia will be seen as a de facto referendum on independence from madrid and from essential lies government and that's largely down to who's running on the ballot paper we have present are still mass regional heads and he's been calling for greater independence if he proves popular on the day of voting for them that could really reflect on how popular the issue of independence is has always been the simmering sentiment when it comes to this national debate between highlighted somewhat given the current

economic conditions and economic plight in spain catalonians feel that they've been hard done so that they give more to madrid in terms of the budget about twelve billion euros more on an annual basis and they ever receive back also catalonia as a regional sort of contributes about twenty percent of spain's annual g.d.p. is still part put with its own destiny struggling to reduce that deficit in catalonia about forty billion euros but here they say they've made deeper and tougher cuts than anywhere else in spain this issue actually earlier this month or so about a million people onto the streets in barcelona is a call for independence away from madrid that comes at a very tough time for spain as a whole particularly for the government of prime minister rudd hordes as one m.p.'s dubbed it is a crisis on top of a crisis as they're facing their own problems of deficit reduction and people coming out to the streets in their tens of thousands to protest against how the

government is handling austerity measures we've just seen this week protests turned violent the occupy congress movement which started peacefully aim to get a message of and just barely through two am peace and ended in violence of police pushing back the protesters with being hit by battens having a bullet fired in their direction and it's also about sixty people were injured in proceedings about thirty people being detained as a worrying sign for some of these demonstrations turned more violent after as they continue. spokesperson for the european partnership point dependent says catalonia is economic stagnation stems from the fact that most of its taxes are used to save poor regions and paying. and you only find time to think this through the character don't have. a ninety five and we pay you right to. carry out your own we each week we even move

far even in that package or how about. the mountain of money that. comes back. to our family. found them. and never comes back and. they're watching l.c. and coming up in the program the british government on its control and that such as the numbers of police officers in that sense to stop the flow from its money box. israel wants more would have run over its nuclear program but the greatest styles in the way so we'll see for nations to play long time allies tel aviv that washington had turned sour. grape juice and creative. elegant and full

of public speech. and body builders against millions which immigrants. this may not seem so serious. but this could be a real threat. to. european extremists. live.

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with iran of its controversial nuclear program however tel aviv's top ally the u.s. is pushing patients instead is it election season cautiousness from washington or have relations with a zero all he's going after can't find sound. the crack between the white house and the strain the leadership is starting to show benjamin netanyahu is pushing washington to draw a red line over iran a line beyond which lies war but president obama is not banding so let me be clear america wants to resolve this issue through diplomacy and we believe that there is still time and space to do so. this to power. and. we feel while. we're going to win even though the obama administration's stated policy is not to let iran have a nuclear weapon for benjamin netanyahu that's not enough if you're determined to

prevent iran from getting nuclear weapons it means you'll act before they get nuclear weapons acting before could mean attacking tomorrow even though according to a u.s. intelligence assessment iranian leaders haven't even decided on whether to build a bomb or not america's top military officials made it clear at tacking iran would be a bad idea should israel decide to go it alone the head of the u.s. army said quote i don't want to be complicit and of quote they assume they can set iran back a couple of years and then go back and do it again and again that's just idiotic because once you start using force everything changes colonel lawrence wilkerson has joined a host of other former and serving government officials who put forward an expert analysis paper on what military action against iran would entail the paper states we believe that a u.s. attack on iran would increase variance motivation to build a bomb. it would take iran a year or more to build a military grade weapon once the decision was made to do so at least two years or

more would be required to create a nuclear warhead that is reliably deliverable by a missile as this room pushes ahead with war talk and red lines the obama administration is trying to relieve the pressure it is not useful to be parsing it to be setting deadlines one way or the other red line any pressure that i feel is simply to do what's right for the american people and i am going to block out any noise that's out there when the president referred to israeli war rhetoric as noise many asked whether the relations between the white house and tell of it have hit a new low all you have to do in this town is say the word israel and everyone is supposed to shrink away everyone supposed to leave the argument because if israel's security is in peril then you are an anti-semite or worse if you say i'm opposite opinion well i'm sorry i'm not an anti semite i'm actually worried about israel's

long term security i just told you one reason americans are getting sick and tired of israel dictating policy to the united states americans have made it clear they don't have the stomach for another war in the middle east especially a war based on some phony red blinds president obama knows that benjamin netanyahu probably knows that too hence the question is the. really serious one pushing the us to the brink of what would be a devastating war or is it some kind of a good cop bad cop diplomatic game that the u.s. and israel are playing whatever it is the escalating war talk is drowning out the hopes of diplomacy in washington i'm going to check out. as always more news is waiting for you on line as homeland has a taste of what went before you that right now. praise but learn how students from one university and we do ask you now fill that hole. it's with money or something else with pepper sprayed by police.

in the u.k. severe budget cuts have dealt a crushing blow to the country's police force influx they've been so sweeping there's been talk among some forces for striking despite industrial action by police being illegal under u.k. law and he's pointed boyko explains while the counts could say the government's a much needed cash it threatens to leave the country dangerously a. they're faced with having to make deep budget cuts and to add insult to injury were reportedly called perhaps by a senior member of the government now police say in the west midlands have decided to fight back in a couple of weeks the conservative party conference comes to birmingham police federations for the three regions surrounding the city are preparing their very own

welcome for all the government ministers paying a visit they say they're going to buy up as many billboards as they can in the city center in order to put this anti government advertisement up by the time the tories start their meeting police say they want the public to know that they can't guarantee a good service because of the budget cuts being insisted upon across the whole of england and wales the picture a similar six thousand eight hundred frontline police jobs have gone since the two thousand and ten general election in order to free up more money for the treasury which is in desperate need of cash back in june two thousand office says representing departments across the whole of england and wales hit the streets of london to protest the government's say that by slashing numbers that are helping to slash red tape in a force that was allowed to get big by the previous labor government the police federation however beg to differ the government to do change the nature of.

beyond all recognition currently. twenty percent of the budget on the police. in england and which just in june line could ship at least blame the loss of office says what they called an inevitable increase in crime is a very. good a shame when the obstacles being put. ultimately the police federation's latest campaign here in birmingham is a warning that even if the deep cuts made by the british government save the money it could come at the cost of public safety. check some other news making headlines around the world i live in a muslim program has been burned by syrian rebels after being held hostage for more than five months the mana rioted back in beirut where he was greeted by his family

the lebanese interior minister abraham was one of the eleven pogroms abducted in syria in may this year on their way from turkey to lebanon the rebels have previously freed one other leaving nine rooms still held captive. so donna bondage to reach a deal on border security and the oil production that will resume exports from south sudan through sudan the spokesman for both sides said the president's reached an agreement on the border buffer zone between the countries with a small number of territories still in dispute one gained independence in july last year it up tain two thirds of the country's oil while so done retain the processing and export facilities. u.s. presidential candidate they troll new recently released his twenty eleven talks returns succumbing to pressures from american voters and despite his repeated criticism and harsh rhetoric towards the numbers showed last investments into two

of russia's biggest corporations. from washington republican presidential nominee mitt romney finally released his much anticipated two thousand and eleven tax returns the three hundred seventy nine page return shows he paid a tax rate of over fourteen percent so there's debate over how that number was calculated his tax return also reveals ties to his cayman island investments and the performance of his goldman sachs funds but perhaps the most important yet overlooked item on his two thousand and eleven tax return is romney's foreign investments and mitt romney family trust return shows romney purchased shares in two giant russian companies around the invested in russian energy firm gazprom and russian internet firm and x. the largest search engine in the country the records show romney invested over a thousand shares in both countries tax records also show romney sold both shares at a loss last september right before the presidential election season kicked off but

what's puzzling is that the presidential hopeful took interest and invested in a country he recently bashed. just to russia this is without question our number one geopolitical foe they fight every cause for the world's worst actors that's right drumming invested in a country he apparently views as america's number one enemy in fact romney's rhetoric on russia is consistently hawkish so if you want to run for the highest office in the united states and that virtually attack a foreign country you may want to keep your investments close to home and washington liz wall r.t. . business with. a market sentiment after all these vonage and you. yeah it's interesting they expected a weak start to the session in asia but things don't seem that globalist check out the figures during the next g. higher in hong kong or financials exporters and property stocks on the downside esprit holdings losing almost five percent one day after reporting

a year result u.s. markets they fell on wednesday with simply saving a fifth day of losses as and she was to protest in europe on the mind confidence speaking of europe french unemployment has topped three million for the first time in over a decade. total showed an increase of nine percent from a year earlier marking the sixteenth consecutive months royds france's labor minister michel described the situation as clearly bad but economist warn it could still get worse as crude prices all hovering around ninety dollars a barrel after the u.s. energy department reported low all demand selling is also fueled by saudi arabia comments the high oil price is justified and its commitment to keep pumping the high levels to the opening bell here in moscow is finished in the red as you can see very often take the bad investors worried recent global stimulus growth finally currencies the euro struggling to bounce back from the losses in the new york city pressured for four legs and commodities ruble was weak against both the euro and

the green but you know today you know a lot more for you next. think i'll be waiting for you here then and coming up next hour seeing speaks to docked at tanjung korean directs the center for arms control in china about the future of relations between moscow and beijing based on a common stones over the complex. it is easy to.

get are sometimes you see a story and it seems so for langley you think you understand it and then it limps something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. of. the muslim.

dr john cool and you're the director and research fellow of the center for arms control china institute of international studies and it's great to have you with us today. so russia and china have found themselves recently in this same camp trying to prevent a possible military intervention into syria.